TY  - JOUR
AU  - Medoff,James L.
AU  - Abraham,Katharine G.
TI  - Experience, Performance, and Earnings
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 278
PY  - 1981
Y2  - April 1981
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w0278
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w0278.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
James L.. Medoff
Department of Economics
Harvard University
Littauer Center 115
Cambridge, MA  02138
Tel: 617/495-4209
E-Mail: jmedoff@harvard.edu

Katharine G. Abraham
Joint Program in Survey Methodology
1218 LeFrak Hall
University of Maryland
College Park, MD  20742
Tel: 301/405-1004
Fax: 301/314-7912
E-Mail: kabraham@survey.umd.edu
M1  - published as Medoff, James L. and Abraham, Katharine G. "Experience, Performance, and Earnings." The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. XCV, No. 4, (December 19 80), pp. 703-736.
AB  - This study provides direct evidence concerning the relationship between experience and performance among managerial and professional employees doing similar work in two major U. S. corporations. The facts presented indicate that while, within grade levels, there is a strong positive association between experience and relative earnings, there is either no association or a negative association between experience and relative rated performance. If we are correct that the performance ratings given to managerial and professional employees in any grade level adequately reflect those employees' relative productivity in the year of assessment, the results imply that the human capital on-the-job training model cannot explain a substantial part of the ob-served return to labor market experience.
ER  -